10 TV Season Finales That Were Still Being Written At The Last Minute

We just watched a slew of season finales, ranging from the wonderful to the baffling. Every May, TV shows try to leave us wanting more. But sometimes, a season’s big ending is up in the air until you see it, with writers frantically crafting new scripts. Here are 10 finales that were being written right…

Please, please crowdfund this animated movie. It’s called Giant Sloth, and it’s got Paul Giamatti as a curator at a science museum that gets privatized, who starts hallucinating when he has a really bad day. It sounds kind of like Night at the Museum crossed with Eraserhead. Find out more on Kickstarter.

SpaceX Unveils Its First Crewed Spacecraft Tonight – Watch It Live!

Commercial space-transport company SpaceX will unveil the first crewed version of its Dragon spacecraft, the “Dragon V2,” tonight at 10:00 pm ET/7:00 pm PT. The event is being held at the company’s rocket factory in Hawthorne, California, but you can watch the big reveal live, online, right here. Like SpaceX’s current Dragon capsule, which has…

Want To Sell Your Stuff At A Convention? Read This Comic First

Thinking about getting a table or booth at a comic book convention, but don’t know the first thing about selling your wares? This comic is a handy primer for anyone looking to sell at a convention for the first time. Cartoonist Mark Monlux of The Comic Critic and The Return of Stickman! made Stickman’s Tips…

​​H.G. Wells’ Remarkable Scientific Article About Evolution On Mars

Ten years after publishing The War of the Worlds, H.G. Wells revisited the Red Planet, writing a non-fiction article speculating about what type of life existed on Mars. The provocative question he posed to readers: “Is it probable that evolution has gone upon exactly parallel lines on the two planets?” The essay, published in the…

Earth To Echo Trailer Finally Reveals Its Adorable Alien Invader

We’ve been excited by the Spielberg-channeling, alien wonder movie Earth to Echo for sometime now, but we’ve never seen the alien before! And now you can too, because this new trailer has revealed Echo, in all his tiny wonder. This is your classic family friendly alien movie. It’s even got a plot where all the…

Ask All Your Questions About Synthetic Biology!

What does it mean to design using living materials? Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and Christina Agapakis will be here to answer your questions about synthetic biology and just what it might mean for the future. Top image: The Synthetic Kingdom: Carbon Monoxide Detecting Lung Tumour / Daisy Ginsberg, 2009. Photo Carole Suety. Ginsberg is a designer,…

Independence Day 2 Still Happening, But Getting A Rewrite

Roland Emmerich has not yet given up on his dream to shoot an Independence Day sequel, now with DOUBLE the alien punching. But first, the script to the sequel has to undergo a complete rewrite. Deadline is reporting that ID2, which was allegedly scheduled for a July 1st, 2016 release date, is getting a total…

Most Doctors Would Refuse Their Own Aggressive End-Of-life Treatments

A recent survey shows that an overwhelming number of American doctors, when facing their own death, would decline the extraordinary measures they themselves continually impose upon their patients. So why do they insist on doing it? Indeed, there’s a huge discrepancy between what people say they want at the end-of-life (EOL) and the care they…

The Director Of Jurassic World Reveals The Movie’s Real Plot

That supposed leaked plot summary of the upcoming Jurassic World movie? Turns out it was only partially right. Forced to clarify the details, director Colin Trevorrow explained the true synopsis — and it still sounds pretty awesome. Talking to /Film, Trevorrow begrudgingly explained: Yes. Jurassic World takes place in a fully functional park on Isla…

At the New York Times, Farhad Manjoo calls Soylent “the most joyless new technology to hit the world since… MS DOS.” Meanwhile, at Ars Technica, Lee Hutchinson has a more subtle take, examining in earnest why so many people are showing interest in the nutritionally complete concoction.

Watch A Drone Deliver A Pizza To A Skyscraper In Mumbai

Francesco’s Pizzeria is known in Mumbai for its thin-crust pizzas made with fresh herbs and a “secret” BBQ lime sauce. But recently, the restaurant achieved national fame when it decided to circumvent the city’s notorious traffic by making a delivery by air. The public was delighted; the police, not-so-much. According to the Times of India,…

What Are The Scientific Landmarks That We All Need To Visit?

Summer is coming up fast, and, hopefully, some accompanying vacation for you. What are some of the scientific landmarks that we should be checking out this season? Maybe it’s a national park, maybe it’s the perfect star-gazing spot, maybe your pick is a museum or planetarium, or just a place with some scientific history. Give…

The Next Cosmos Is Poised To Be The Most Controversial Yet

To date, the rebooted Cosmos series has unabashedly tackled such “controversial” topics as evolution and industry-funded science denial. But as this preview of the next episode shows, Neil deGrasse Tyson — along with his adorable dog — are heading straight into climate change country. In the clip, de Grasse Tyson takes the time to distinguish…

The Many Easter Eggs Of X-Men: Days Of Future Past Revealed

Most X-Fans will likely know most of the trivia and comic references that packed Days of Future Past, but this six-minute video still probably has a few you missed. For instance, the deleted Rogue scene it describes sounds pretty great — I’m kind of sad it wasn’t included. I bet Anna Paquin is, too. Although…

Confirmed: John Wesley Shipp Will Play The Flash’s Father!

The Divergent sequel has started filming. Marvel confirms Charlie Cox’s casting as Daredevil, plus the Netflix show’s modern New York setting. And check out brand new looks at the Transformers, Extant, and Dawn of the Planet of the Apes. Spoilers now! Top image: Dawn of the Planet of the Apes Star Wars Writer Gary Whitta…

Watch a Biplane Fly Through the Arc de Triomphe. In 1919.

This is a five-second video from 1919 showing Charles Godefroy flying his biplane through the Arc de Triomphe in Paris to commemorate the end of World War I. Apparently, the French Air Force found the plan for them to march on foot in a parade as insulting, and a group of them decided that an…

Man Keeps His Home Safe With a Dragon Hedge

John Brooker sculpted this out of the 10ft-high hedge at his rented cottage in East Rudham, Norfolk. Brooker’s reasoning? “I was standing at my kitchen sink one day and thought the hedge was boring so decided to do something with it.” Fair enough. BBC via Colossal

Hulu Is in Talks to Revive Community!

Hope for six seasons and a movie is still alive! Deadline reports that the talks are very preliminary, but both sides are apparently willing. This comes after Dan Harmon walked back earlier comments that he wouldn’t bring back the show, saying “I’m not going to be the guy that re-cancels cancelled Community.”

Isa Looks Way More Ambitious Than Your Average Syfy Movie

Syfy is best known for showing original films like Mansquito, Sharktopus and Sharknado… so it’s kind of an odd surprise to see the trailer for Isa, a dreamlike and tense movie airing on Syfy on June 11. In which a girl seems to have a mysterious brain implant and she can make things… happen. Isa…